You could always try the greasemonkey script that plays flash videos in an in-browser box of VLC. Smooth playback without the stupid CPU usage of flash.

guMmiwormz

United States312 Posts

January 18 2010 20:43 GMT

#62

theres a program called minimem
http://main.kerkia.com/tools/default.aspx

that is supposed to lower the cpu usage of programs

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 18 2010 20:47 GMT

#63

had memory leak problems with ff but it actually extended to all browsers and was not only limited to flash. Couldn't do anything but reformat.

zee

201 Posts

January 18 2010 21:16 GMT

#64

On January 19 2010 05:43 guMmiwormz wrote:
theres a program called minimem
http://main.kerkia.com/tools/default.aspx

that is supposed to lower the cpu usage of programs

memory usage not cpu and i doubt it works very well ive heard ram "optimizer" programs are just a myth

Shizuru~

Malaysia1676 Posts

January 19 2010 00:03 GMT

#65

so... lots of people having similiar problem but none has figured out whats up or a solution than reformat ?

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

January 19 2010 00:58 GMT

#66

On January 19 2010 05:42 sith wrote:
You could always try the greasemonkey script that plays flash videos in an in-browser box of VLC. Smooth playback without the stupid CPU usage of flash.

i just googled this, apparently you have to wait for the whole video to load before you can begin playback? that's definitely a no-go..

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

January 19 2010 12:01 GMT

#67

On January 19 2010 09:03 Shizuru~ wrote:
so... lots of people having similiar problem but none has figured out whats up or a solution than reformat ?

guess not =[

Khul Sadukar

Australia1735 Posts

January 21 2010 02:49 GMT

#68

i usually have this problem with any livestream, video stuttering in ie/ff with moderate cpu usage. although the sound comes through fine. weird thing is though the other night i was playing dragon age which causes 100% cpu and i alt tabbed to roffles high quality stream in ff and it was smooth as. i have no idea what causes the issue now. been having this issue in both vista/ win7, after complete rebuilds, latest flash and ff. at a loss what to try next.

Khul Sadukar

Australia1735 Posts

January 21 2010 02:52 GMT

#69

btw i have a dual core 3ghz, 4gb ram & gtx 260. so not a hardware issue. would put it down to flaky net but the audio is smooth..

NiteKat

United States146 Posts

January 21 2010 03:26 GMT

#70

I have issues sometimes with FF similar to this, where I'll try to load a livestream and it'll freeze everything up, and I'm forced to end firefox.exe using taskmanager (which at this point takes 2 minutes to bring up), and I see FF at 50% CPU usage (1.6ghz dual core, so one entire core is hogged), with like over 200,000 K Mem usage... though that only happens SOMETIMES, and if I close firefox and restart it, after several times the stream will run okay as long as I'm not doing much else. :\

Lately FF has been handling streams like Day[9]'s okay, though when he enables the chat for questions it lags a bit. I haven't changed anything, so I don't know what's up, but I still hover around 50% CPU. :\

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

January 21 2010 04:31 GMT

#71

I'm having an issue where Firefox sometimes doesn't want to full screen on websites like Hulu or Youtube. Anyone else having that problem? It's not a technical problem since Chrome doesn't seem to be doing that.

Manit0u

Poland17556 Posts

January 21 2010 04:51 GMT

#72

Found possible solution (unfortunately only for Linux users): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftfox

Gonna try it out (as for me too FF is often slow when viewing flash).

Edit:
Updating flash to 10.0 r42 and FF to 3.6 seems to have solved the flash slowdown problem.
CPU usage dropped from 50% to 15%.

Khul Sadukar

Australia1735 Posts

January 25 2010 21:20 GMT

#73

Ok I did some testing and turns out my net is unstable as hell (pingtest.net)

Looked around the house and found someone had plugged in an ancient rotator dial phone without a filter. I remember unplugging the damn thing ages ago grrrr

We'll see how the stream goes tonight

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

January 25 2010 21:29 GMT

#74

I had this problem (why I created the other thread about browsers) I had major issues with flash and javascript. My problems was helped alot by 3.6 though don't know a solution to your problems though =(

semantics

10040 Posts

January 26 2010 06:44 GMT

#75

On January 26 2010 06:20 Khul Sadukar wrote:
Ok I did some testing and turns out my net is unstable as hell (pingtest.net)

Looked around the house and found someone had plugged in an ancient rotator dial phone without a filter. I remember unplugging the damn thing ages ago grrrr

We'll see how the stream goes tonight

something like that would nearly cut your speed in half and totally kill your reliability under a fast dsl conditions you must have a slow dsl if you havent noticed it instally.

Zack1900

United States211 Posts

January 26 2010 16:39 GMT

#76

I think it is a flash problem. I use google chrome and I sometimes have that problem. Sorry if it has already been stated I'm just to lazy to read anything but the first and last pages.

Navold

Netherlands31 Posts

January 27 2010 15:07 GMT

#77

fuck i read this shit as (flash the progamer) was slow in the team (firefox).
I was like, WTF i never heared of no team called firefox!

Storm704

United States114 Posts

January 27 2010 15:47 GMT

#78

The new firefox 3.6 fixes this problem.

Zanno

United States1484 Posts

January 27 2010 19:53 GMT

#79

On January 18 2010 19:56 Plexa wrote:

Show nested quote +

Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family
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It's a work laptop lol

Well, that's your problem.
When you have one of those integrated Intel "video cards" what it really means is that you simply don't have a video card - all those chips are really doing is offloading what would normally be accomplished by the video card onto your ram and processor. So given that it should be obvious why flash causes such huge spikes, no?

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

January 27 2010 20:16 GMT

#80

I definitely have this problem on the work comps, but they suck so everything is laggy.

At home I think the lag is attributed to my ISP/bandwidth though. I often just DL videos from youtube and watch in VLC later.

ALso, Firefox has gotten laggier and laggier for like every update. It's unavoidable though.